100% WORKING TREATMENT for my IBS!

I have followed a strict IBS diets for months during my IBS, an never once I have felt close to better, of course the diet helped me , but only to not amplify the severity of the attacks. Food is not the root cause of our problem but it can aggravate it, I remember from the past during my IBS diet, I had a couple of times of waking up in the morning or during the day just drinking plain water on an empty stomach and then hell breaking loose like I had eaten something really bad for IBS, which I did not because I was already for months on the IBS diet… so this would make me think that I had to quit drinking water also? What was left? Breathing air?

My thought here is Food plays its role in aggravating IBS, but it is not the cause, the Bowels are damaged and they have to be repaired.

When the walls of your bowels are damaged and weak (microscopic holes in the intestinal permeability), bacteria and particles of food go through creating chaos. Healthy/ strong intestinal walls (gut mucosa permeability) and controlled bacteria in the guts mostly are the keys to become or get close to normality again!

What your saying makes perfect sense. I've been going through the whole rigmarole of gluten free (as I'm told I could be coeliac) however I've happily consumed gluten without any issues. Like you also say I've been fine eating and drinking having a balanced diet, then ibs seems to flare up. Everything I've tried has made marginal improvements but the only 1 thing I've done which has helped massively is regulate my sugar intake.

I started taking the probiotic which seemed to help. I'm not tempted to try L Glutamine with the probiotic for a longer period of time.

My diet at the time of ibs kicking off was high in sugar, alcohol, fizzy drinks etc and carbs. Not good. I've since changed all that and now feel better.

How long did you stay on L Glutamine and probiotic before you saw a difference?

When I quit sugar I felt awful for about 2 weeks...like being hungover lol. I was tired and soo thirsty. Anyway that all passed and my stomach calmed down, stopped making weird noises, morning rushes stopped, poo didn't burn when I went to the toilet. Ever since reducing my intake I've felt better. I've also done what you mention in a previous post...and re introduced sugar to see if my symptoms return...which they do.

I'm about 75% improved but just not 'cured'! Would love to be cured though!! Would be awesome!

I'm exactly the same as you. I research and understand how my body is responding and remove / introduce things to my diet to find collocations etc to improve things.

Don't get me wrong I'm all up for natural supplements and healthy healing but sometimes you do need (as you say) that drug as a last resort to help improve things!

I work with a few guys who have ibs issued. Their solution is to not worry about it and live with it. I refuse to live with something that has affected a lot of aspects of my life. Exactly like you say... Becoming a diet freak, having constant frustrations when thinking a new diet is working then the ibs hits you, the constant worry of needing to know where the bathroom is.... And the list goes on!

I've never ever had any stomach problems up until 3-4 years ago. Never had any issues with gluten....etc and would be 'as regular as clockwork' with nice soft solid stools. Then it had intense stomach pains for 3 days, diahrrea for about a month and I was told I had ibs. 

Coming up to the 14 day on VSL probiotic. Normal diet etc. I stopped the L glutamine as something started making me feel rough and unwell. Not sure whether it was a big I caught it whether the L glutamine was causing it. My plan is to stick with VSL for a month and then review how it feel.

So far difficult to say... Can't say I've noticed a massive change, but will persist!

In my case the only real symptom has been excess flatulence, but to a life-changing degree. This is devastating as far as any social life is concerned. Some foods are worse than others, but no matter what I eat I suffer from excess flatulence every day. And it has become steadily worse over the years.

I first suspected the cause to be Bacteria about three years ago when given the antibiotic Augmentin for a bladder infection on more than one occasion. Each time the flatulence ceased altogether within a few days, by which time my surgery had obtained the results of the urine test and changed my prescription to a different antibiotic, whereupon the flatulence returned in a short time.

Over the years I consulted with two gastroenterologists who sent me for numerous tests/scans which proved negative. I was advised that “we might never find the cause” and, after a negative SIBO breath test, “antibiotics are not appropriate”, the latter in spite of my findings with Augmentin. At the recommendation of the second consultant I paid for the strong, albeit expensive, probiotic VSL#S because my GP refused to prescribe it under NHS, and which only succeeded in making my condition worse. Also, at some point I was referred to a Dietitian who insists I am suffering from IBS and who introduced me to the FODMAP diet, which, in any case, I find impossible to follow religiously! I have tried a Gluton Free diet with no effect!

Becoming totally dissatisfied and disillusioned, I recently went to yet a third consultant and at last achieved a minor breakthrough. He admitted that my excess flatulence was caused by bacteria but explained that the medical profession regards it as a symptom of IBS, even when the patient is not suffering from any of the other several symptoms normally associated with IBS. It became clear that the NHS policy on IBS is to attempt to alleviate the symptoms rather than address the cause. Unfortunately, he like the others would not endorse the use of antibiotics. And incidentally, none of the consultants I have spoken to will agree to there being “good and bad” bacteria. One claimed that the concept was introduced by the firms selling probiotics! What do I know?

So it was quite refreshing to read subsequently about Dr. Pimental and the Greek research study on the website Medical News Today. The conclusion of that being that Bacteria is not only the cause of flatulence but, at the same time, is the cause of IBS. As you remarked, the study achieved some success with the antibiotic Rifaximin, which may be more appropriate than Augmentin. But whilst the GPs are reluctant to use any antibiotic for IBS I understand they prescribe it for travel diarrhea, which leaves me puzzled as to why travel diarrhea is not classified as IBS?

I found this forum a couple of days ago and I thank you for your comments on L-Glutamine. I will look further into that.

Good luck with your methods.